Comments on: Highly Selective http://blakeseely.com/blog/archives/2006/08/05/highly-selective/ If I could put reflection under this header, I would. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:36:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Gord Locke http://blakeseely.com/blog/archives/2006/08/05/highly-selective/#comment-10898 Gord Locke Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:39:16 +0000 http://blakeseely.com/blog/archives/2006/08/05/highly-selective/#comment-10898 PA must have misread John Muir's comment somewhat. The change in file-selection modifier keys from shift-click to cmd-click occurred when Apple switched from OS 9.22 to OS X. In OS 8 and 9, you still have to use SHIFT. PA must have misread John Muir’s comment somewhat. The change in file-selection modifier keys from shift-click to cmd-click occurred when Apple switched from OS 9.22 to OS X. In OS 8 and 9, you still have to use SHIFT.

]]> By: John Muir http://blakeseely.com/blog/archives/2006/08/05/highly-selective/#comment-10884 John Muir Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:00:57 +0000 http://blakeseely.com/blog/archives/2006/08/05/highly-selective/#comment-10884 Indeed. The System 7 way seems pretty odd to me, it's just that I expected the unanchored keyboard selections to have come from back then as they too are strange to any user just arriving at OS X. Did it come from NeXT ... my second guess? Surely no one invented this just for OS X. Indeed. The System 7 way seems pretty odd to me, it’s just that I expected the unanchored keyboard selections to have come from back then as they too are strange to any user just arriving at OS X.

Did it come from NeXT … my second guess? Surely no one invented this just for OS X.

]]> By: PA http://blakeseely.com/blog/archives/2006/08/05/highly-selective/#comment-10876 PA Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:37:02 +0000 http://blakeseely.com/blog/archives/2006/08/05/highly-selective/#comment-10876 <i> I also noticed that shift+click had the behaviour command+click has now. Wonder when the current behaviour was brought in then. </i> The behaviour was changed when context menus were introduced in OS 8. This is when the control key was used for right clicking and couldn't be used for selecting anymore. I think the current method is better for users who have to work in Windows, too, because shift stays the same and control is most often replaced by command anyway. I also noticed that shift+click had the behaviour command+click has now. Wonder when the current behaviour was brought in then.

The behaviour was changed when context menus were introduced in OS 8. This is when the control key was used for right clicking and couldn’t be used for selecting anymore.

I think the current method is better for users who have to work in Windows, too, because shift stays the same and control is most often replaced by command anyway.

]]> By: John Muir http://blakeseely.com/blog/archives/2006/08/05/highly-selective/#comment-10863 John Muir Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:38:52 +0000 http://blakeseely.com/blog/archives/2006/08/05/highly-selective/#comment-10863 Apple usually get it right. But unanchored selections are one of the rare instances they don't. Has it always been this way I wonder? I switched back in Jaguar and it was one of the first irritations I found with an OS otherwise so comprehensively superior to what I'd used before. Interesting ... I just tried System 7.5.3 on Mini vMac out of interest to see what was done back in the old days. And to my surprise there is no such thing as keyboard based expanding selections in Finder ... holding shift does nothing as the cursors just move to a different file in all the views. I also noticed that shift+click had the behaviour command+click has now. Wonder when the current behaviour was brought in then. I have no Classic installed so can't investigate for now. Apple usually get it right. But unanchored selections are one of the rare instances they don’t. Has it always been this way I wonder? I switched back in Jaguar and it was one of the first irritations I found with an OS otherwise so comprehensively superior to what I’d used before.

Interesting … I just tried System 7.5.3 on Mini vMac out of interest to see what was done back in the old days. And to my surprise there is no such thing as keyboard based expanding selections in Finder … holding shift does nothing as the cursors just move to a different file in all the views. I also noticed that shift+click had the behaviour command+click has now. Wonder when the current behaviour was brought in then. I have no Classic installed so can’t investigate for now.

]]> By: blake http://blakeseely.com/blog/archives/2006/08/05/highly-selective/#comment-10859 blake Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:39:54 +0000 http://blakeseely.com/blog/archives/2006/08/05/highly-selective/#comment-10859 Sometimes, even Apple doesn't pay attention to the details that it should... but then again, sometimes they think of details you never thought mattered. :) Sometimes, even Apple doesn’t pay attention to the details that it should… but then again, sometimes they think of details you never thought mattered. :)

]]> By: Eduo http://blakeseely.com/blog/archives/2006/08/05/highly-selective/#comment-10855 Eduo Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:15:56 +0000 http://blakeseely.com/blog/archives/2006/08/05/highly-selective/#comment-10855 "In true apple style" --- What? You mean like with the current unanchored behaviour? :) “In true apple style” — What? You mean like with the current unanchored behaviour? :)

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